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Alumni Weekend Mixer

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Alumni Weekend was a great time for both alumni and current students. Alumni got to reminisce about their time in law school, while students were able to absorb some of the wisdom of those who had been in their footsteps before. The school hosted an Alumni of Color Cocktail Hour before Friday's bbq, but La Raza and LSAD kept the celebration going by hosting an Alumni Mixer after the bbq. It was amazing to talk to Raza alumni and hear what the school was like at a time when there was much more hostility towards students of color. Some alumna talked about how much they appreciated their 1L Property professor who dared to talk about critical race in the classroom. (Sound familiar? They were talking about our very own Ian Haney López!) We appreciated their stories and perspectives and hope they'll come back again soon! 

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.